PEARSON, John Henry (son of a hotel keeper at Carlisle). b. Carlisle; apprenticed to Halling, Pearce and Stone, drapers, Waterloo house, 1–4 Cockspur street and 15–18 Pall Mall East, London; apprenticed to the circus business 3 years; made a great name as a bareback rider; rode at Hengler’s circus, Dale st. Liverpool, then at Astley’s Amphitheatre, London; performed in U.S. of America; employed successively in Sanger’s, Newsome’s, Cooke’s, Keith’s, Ginnett’s, and Culeen’s circuses; ring-master at Ohmy’s circus, Southport to his death. d. Southport 1 July 1887. bur. Southport cemet. Era 10 July 1887.
PEARSON, John Norman (son of John Pearson, surgeon 1758–1826). b. 7 Dec. 1787; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., Hulsean prizeman 1807; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; chaplain to marquess of Wellesley; the first principal of the Church Missionary society’s college at Islington 1826–39; V. of Holy Trinity church Tunbridge Wells 1839–53; author of A critical essay on the ninth book of Warburton’s Divine legation of Moses, Cambridge 1808; Christ crucified: or some passages of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ, devotionally and practically considered 1826; The candle of the Lord uncovered, or the bible rescued from papal thraldom by the Reformation 1835; The days in paradise 1854. d. Bower hall, near Steeple Bumpstead, Essex 4 Oct. 1865. G.M. ii 792 (1865).
PEARSON, Josiah Brown (son of Benjamin Pearson). b. Chesterfield 1841; educ. Chesterfield gram. sch.; scholar St. John’s coll. Camb.; a first in the moral science tripos 1864; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, LL.M. 1871, LL.D. 1874, D.D. 1880; fellow of St. John’s 1864–80, lecturer 1864–71; C. of St. Michael, Camb. 1865–7; C. of St. Andrew the great, Camb. 1867–9; V. of Horningsea, Cambs. 1871–4; Whitehall preacher 1872–4; Hulsean lecturer and Ramsden preacher 1872; V. of Newark 1874–80; commissioner to bishop of Melbourne 1876–80; bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales 1880, consecrated in St. Paul’s cathedral 1 May 1880, resigned Nov. 1890; V. of Leck Kirkby, Lonsdale 1893 to death; author of The divine personality, the Burney prize essay 1865; Creed or no creed, three sermons 1871; Disciples in doubt, five sermons 1879. d. Leck vicarage 10 March 1895.
PEARSON, Julius Alexander. b. 1839; educ. King’s coll. London; LL.D.; admitted solicitor 1862; practised at 46 Hyde park sq. London 1864; junior partner in Cope, Rose, and Pearson 26 Great George st. Westminster 1867 to death; contributed to Gent. Mag., and Notes and Queries, chiefly upon heraldic matters; F.S.A. 7 June 1866. d. Surbiton, Surrey 29 April 1871. Solicitors’ Journal xv 511 (1871).
PEARSON, Richard Lyons Otway (son of Henry Shepherd Pearson). b. 1831; educ. Eton and at Sandhurst; ensign 95 foot 10 Dec. 1847; captain 7 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. grenadier guards 20 July 1855, captain 27 Dec. 1864, sold out 2 Jany. 1869; aide-de-camp to sir George Brown during Crimean war 1854–5, present at Alma, Inkerman, the expedition to Kertch, and the siege of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; assistant commissioner of metropolitan police 1 July 1881 to death; C.B. 21 June 1887. d. 57 Warwick sq. London 30 May 1890.
PEARSON, Thomas Hooke (son of John Pearson, advocate-general of India). b. June 1806; educ. Eton; cornet 11 light dragoons 14 March 1825; served at siege of Bhurtpore Nov. 1825; captain 59 foot 23 Aug. 1831; captain 16 lancers 9 Dec. 1831, major 23 April 1847, placed on h.p. 7 April 1848; served at battle of Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843 and in the first Sikh war; commanded his regiment during latter part of battle of Aliwal (and saved the battle by a spirited cavalry charge) 28 Jany. 1846, and at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; on retired list as L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; honorary general 1 July 1881; colonel 12 lancers 4 Feb. 1879 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869; won the One thousand guineas, Great Yorkshire stakes, St. Leger and Doncaster cup with Achievement 1867, her foals did not live and she died in 1872. d. The Hasells, Sandy, Beds. 29 April 1892. Times 3 May 1892 p. 10.
PEARSON, William (son of capt. Hugh Pearson, R.N.) b. Hilton, Kilmany, Fifeshire 20 Sept. 1818; a squatter in Gippsland, Australia 1841, owning Lindenow and Kilmany park stations; member for North Gippsland to legislative assembly 1868 and 1871; member for the Eastern province in legislative council; largest shareholder in Long tunnel gold mine, Walhalla; a breeder of race horses from 1842; a winner of several hundred races; great supporter of the turf in Victoria; an exceedingly wealthy man. d. Melbourne Sept. 1893.
PEARSON-GEE, Arthur Beilby (elder son of Wm. Pearson, Q.C., b. 1824). b. 2 Nov. 1855; educ. Rugby and Trin. hall, Camb., B.A. 1877; barrister I.T. 25 June 1879; went north eastern circuit; member of joint legal board of examiners 1881 to death; assumed additional surname of Gee by R.L. 15 Jany. 1885; edited J. P. Benjamin’s Treatise on the law of sale of personal property, 3 ed. 1883, and 4 ed. 1888; author with H. F. Boyd of Factors acts 1823 to 1877, 1884, and alone of The new factors acts annotated 1890. d. 19 Portland place, London 9 Jany. 1896. Times 11 Jany. 1896 p. 6.
PEASE, Edward (eld. son of Joseph Pease, woollen manufacturer). b. Darlington 31 May 1767; in his father’s business at Darlington 1782; retired from the business about 1817; projected George Stephenson’s railway from Darlington to Stockton, first rail was laid 23 May 1823 and the line was opened for traffic 27 Sept. 1825, chiefly managed by him to 1830; advanced Stephenson money to start an engine factory at Newcastle, where was constructed the first engine used on the line 1823; an elder in the society of Friends and an active worker to his death. d. Northgate, Darlington 31 July 1858. Annual Monitor (1859) 123–64; S. Smiles’s Lives of the engineers G. and R. Stephenson (1874) 123–32, 385 portrait; I.L.N. 1 Aug. 1858 p. 121; Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 487–95.
PEASE, Edward (2 son of Joseph Pease 1799–1872). b. 24 June 1834; a woollen manufacturer; established the Gardeners’ institute at Darlington and the model fruit farms at Bewdly; chief promoter of British and foreign training college for female teachers at Darlington, and of the Darlington grammar school; left by will £10,000 to establish a library at Darlington, library was opened 23 Oct. 1885. d. Lucerne 13 June 1880. bur. Darlington, personalty sworn at £500,000, 25 Sept. 1880. First Report of E. Pease public library (1887).